area -- michelle obama. up next, "newsmakers" with california congressman, dana rohrabacher on u.s. russia relations and al qaeda's continued threat abroad. then the second annual family leadership conference with remarks by rick santorum and donald trump. after that, president obama's speaking to disabled in orlando, florida. with aq and a" washington post investigative >> our guest this week is dana rohrabacher. he has responsibilities for issues involving russia and also looks at emerging threats. after the big decisions about u.s./russian relations in the summit, we thought it important to speak to him. let me introduce our reporters, guy taylor. blake houshell is the deputy editor of politico. >> my first quonon

they do not want to vote for president obama. but at least he went and talked to them and about them. we did not do that. we marginalized them. --st and foremost, we need first and foremost, we need to reject the idea that if we build to becoming, everybody will be fine. -- if we build the economy, everybody will be fine. most people have holes in their boats. we need to talk about people who have holes in their boats. we all do. we all need help from each other. [applause] the second inc. as we be to talk less about the culture area -- thing is we need to talk less about the culture. the people who do this is who do not want to talk about culture in the first place. as a result, do not engage as we have and this party. i will give you an example. when i was running for president, i went to a breakfast to some the wealthiest backers in new york. i sat down at this breakfast and they grilled me for half an hour on my moral and cultural position. i stopped and said you have other candidates appear area did you ask them the same que

another way is to find them, as president obama continues to do. we have got to employ all of our national strength to defeat this threat. it is not just one threat. can you comment on diplomacy and curbing illegal immigration. >> that is a tough question. of the say that part diplomacy we have with canada, the largest undefended border in protect our to borders. i have never seen immigration as a problem. i hope congress will be able to agree on an immigration bill mexicanld legalize americans in the united states. [applause] we should see them as people are already building america. they live with us. their kids are in our school. the kids are our hope for the future. our diplomacy and our diplomats have an obligation to defend our borders. we do not want to see illegal immigration. we should try to stop illegal immigration. illegal immigration deals with people already in the country. >> ladies and gentlemen, nick burns. [applause] >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite

in the berlin speech, president obama announced about a month ago the next big step he envisioned, which was bringing the american arsenal down to just above 1000 nuclear weapons. but he added to that that it could only be done in concert with the russians and getting similar cuts. almost the next day, we heard president putin reject this approach. from your study of this, what would be the risk of doing this unilaterally? if you are not going to get russian agreement to this, would the united states be significantly less safe with merely 1000 weapons against the current russian arsenal? how do you deal with the russian concern of the hour non-nuclear weapons would increase in precision? >> a good question. several things. you are right. the president did say we are prepared to make further reductions below the new level in our nuclear arsenal, but he had the intention of seeking them in parallel or in tandem with russia. you are right. putin said what he said, namely that the russians have some concerns that would need to be addressed in the course of the negotiation. i will get back to

that caused them to support barack obama instead of hillary clinton. how does she address the fact that she has a record to defend and she has to defend her husband's record as well? >> i think her job as secretary of state has solidified her standing as a candidate that happens to be married to a guy who used to be president. it is not that his presidency would in any way to find her presidency. i think it is important to remember that we had two candidates for president in 20 in 2008 that were amazing. these were historic candidates that made all of us that are democrats so proud of our party. it made us so proud of our country because the twos amazing candidates are running. i said to my friends who were disappointed in me when i supported barack obama -- i did not say i was going for a good old boy. this was an extraordinarily difficult decision. it was a difficult one for me and i think in many ways it is a difficult thing for our party. the good news is now we get to make history twice. we get to make history in 2008 by electing an amazing leader

barack obama would not be president of the united states of america. [applause] we must remember those who labor for wages. we must remember those who served and died wearing the uniform of a nation that they cared so much about but did not reciprocate that emotion in equal measure. each of these brave men and women displayed a profound love of country that must always be appreciated. it is to these people that we owe the greatest debt. americans of all races, genders, ethnicities, sexual orientation, and background will risk everything in order for their fellow citizens and their children to truly be free. it is to them we must all say in the most profound of ways, thank you. it is to them i dedicate my words this morning and it is in their honor i pledge my continuing service in the hope that it might pay to worry the-- pay worthy tribute to their sacrifices. today the services far more about -- is more than -- is far more than about reflecting on our pasts. it is about shaping the future we will undoubtedly share. >> those who came before us, we lov

the second point i would make, president obama to the o.m.b. made this sequester much harder than it needed to be. he had the choice of doing two things. he could make the sequester agency-wide, which means program specific, or he could make it just to the department, and let them meet the goals. he chose to make it specific. so it would exert the most pain on the most people so that he could win the battle of increasing spending. that's what he did, through the o.m.b. so they had a choice. and your department probably would not have got a cut at all, had he made a choice to do it the smart way, the way a pursuedent person would do it. they did not do it. they went to buy department. by line item, by facility. so the problems we have sequester -- we have the problems we have with sequester because of the choice that the president made to make it as painful as possible. >> senator coburn. will you please explain to the audience what obama did has to do with using the office of personal management to contemplate the health care needs of the stati

president obama. if you are caring for our buddies in this country, we want to care about this in different places. host: our guests are answering your questions about the law. we will turn out to look at the insurance marketplace. here are some new phone lines. if you have insurance you can ll us at 20258. if you lack insurance it is 202- 585-3881. good morning. caller: we have about 30 employees. we could easily higher 20 or 30 move but we will not do it because of obama care. it is one of the largest hospitals in america. we just laid off it is one of the largest hospitals in america. we just laid off the reasons that he did not institute his policies simply because there were elections coming up in november. that is ready much it. i apologize. she said people that do not get insurance if they get hurt they are going to be responsible. if they do not have the money and there are d getting subsidies, they do not care if they are responsible. there's nobody to get. it looks like we are already paying

even worse, and though obama care anyone working -- under obama care anyone working over 30 hours per week is considered full time, causing some businesses to reluctantly reduce the hours that their workers worked to fewer than 30 per week. it is not just the private sector that is affected. let me give you an example. a school system in my state of maine is already preparing to track and cap the number of hours that substitute teachers can work to ensure that they do not work more than 29 hours per week. money inrs means less the teachers' paychecks and more destruction for the students. byently labor leaders of led the teamsters president warned that obama care will, and i employers that , eliminate the backbone of the american middle-class. they are right to be worried. in the past, most of these jobs were full time. this year the overwhelming majority of new jobs are part- time. under this troubling trend, more workers will find their hours and earnings reduced. jobs will be lost. disturbing,cially as our country is still battling high unemployment. center atom the labor californi

obama as an ape. there's no controlling that. the first ladies are becoming, i think fair game for all the nastiness that richard talked about and hate radio. >> i think they've always been there. i think the new media as ratcheted it up. adam scott was eviscerated in the press. eleanor roosevelt, -- >> i thought had wanted to borrow her dress. >> i guarantee you that somebody is going to download this from c-span. they're going to edit something out to change the intent of what we say -- >> i hope they will. >> only you richard. >> if the women and the men who inherit this position live their life by that, they will spit on the people who came before them. because the courage that it takes to live in this bubble, to assume this pressure and always feel inadequate not just in terms of how can you support your spouse but how can you support this country. is an act of heart-sucking courage. if we don't give credit for these women for accepting that responsibility and realizing that they're influential i

president obama and mrs. obama, presidents clinton and carter, other distinguished program participants, i'm honored to be among you today and to address this historic gathering. i don't know if i am the most senior speaker to address this assembly today, but i'm certainly and surely the only person alive who knew martin luther king, jr. when he was a baby. it has been my great privilege to watch my little brother grow and thrive and develop into a fine man and then a great leader whose legacy continues to inspire countless millions around the world. unfortunately, a bout with a flu virus 50 years ago prevented me from attending the original march. but i was able to watch it on television, and i was as awe- struck as everyone else. i knew martin was an excellent preacher because i had seen him deliver on many occasions. but on that day, martin achieved greatness because he melded the hopes and dreams of millions into a grand vision of healing, reconciliation, and brotherhood. the dream my brother shared with

quacks shortly before 2:00, president obama came to the rose garden of companies by vice president joe biden. we will show these to you now. >> good afternoon. 10 days ago the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in syria in the worst chemical attack in the 21st century. thatrday they presented the syrian government was responsible for this attack on its own people. it shows them preparing to use chemical weapons, launching rockets in the highly populated suburbs of damascus, and acknowledging that a chemical weapons attack took place. all of this corporate's what the world can plainly see. hospitals overflowing with victims. terrible images of the dead. all told, well over 1000 people were murdered. several hundred of them were children. young girls and boys gassed to death by their own government. this attack is an assault on human community. it also presents a serious danger to our national security. it risks making a mockery of the global role vision on the use of chemical weapons. it endangers our friends and our partners along syria's border including

barack obama's vision for america. or kentucky's. the obama crowd does not like it. kentucky's voice is often the voice of opposition to the obama agenda. i am proud of that. that is why every liberal in america, every liberal in america have announced they will beat us next year. you know, the liberals are worried because it just as i predicted, obamacare is a disaster for america. [applause] i fought them every step of the way, every step of the government takeover. and we stand up to their war on coal. look, as long as i am in the senate, kentucky will have a voice. [applause] all of these liberals, come down here to push me around, they are not going to get away with it, are they? going to decide what kindrand pi take the fight every single day. let me give you an example. a few months ago, the liberals decided that you cannot fish below the dams below the river anymore. well, i rounded up the group and we got together with ed whitfield and rand paul and you can still fish below the dams. we stopped them. [applause] in the beginning of the year, they tried to rai

they didn't ask for president obama to create a commission. they said, give us more of your time. if we would invest more of our time with these young people, we could stop this violence. [applause] number one. the second thought that i had is how do we -- this is a national movement. it's not just a -- it's -- chicago is just the epicenter of it. it really is going across some of these -- i don't know where these tv cameras are, but some people in philadelphia are going to see and hear about this, read about this and some people in oakland, california going to hear and read about this. and they're going to wander, well, what are they doing in chicago? how is chicago working this situation out? one thing that i don't think we take a lot of time and effort -- we've got 30 days before the national march on washington -- the date that it took place, august 28. we have one month. today is the 27th? so we have one month. >> 26th? >> 26th. okay, two days, all right. why, if you and i can agree on this, why are we working over the next 30 days, e-mailing, texting, sending facebook commun